Founder and CEO
The founder and CEO of Renovation Navigation is Harry G. Broadman.
Thirty-five years ago at the vanguard of his generation, Harry began to build a career that epitomizes what today is commonly referred to as a ‘serial entrepreneur’. He has re-invented himself more than a handful of times in an interdisciplinary fashion across highly differentiated senior roles within the private sector, interspersed with high-level stints in policy-making and thought leadership.
With an innate sense of how businesses function, his professional experiences have been driven by an intense inquisitiveness about the myriad of elements that shape the approaches successful firms pursue to grow, remain competitive, reduce risk and innovate, and he has always had a strong predisposition towards international markets.
Harry recently became CEO and Managing Partner of Proa Global Partners LLC, an emerging markets-focused investment transactional advisory firm, which devises and collaborates with clients to execute innovative approaches to exploit opportunities for arbitrage, and nimbly capitalizing on growth while mitigating risk. The firm’s clients include corporates, commercial and investment banks, private equity firms, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices and high net worth individuals.
Concurrently, he joined the Johns Hopkins University Faculty, where he serves as Director of Johns Hopkins’ new Council on Global Enterprise and Emerging Markets as well as a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins’ Foreign Policy Institute.
A monthly columnist for Forbes, Newsweek International and Gulf News, he writes on global business growth strategy, mitigation of corruption risks in emerging markets, corporate governance, and the changing dynamics of commercial innovation.
These are topics on which Harry is extensively engaged as a Keynote Speaker, either directly or through several speakers bureaus that represent him, before a wide array of business and investment entities both abroad and in the US.
He serves or has recently served on the Boards of Directors of: The Corporate Council on Africa; The Global Business School Network; The Russian-American Chamber of Commerce; The Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic; and Partners for Democratic Change, a global alternative dispute resolution firm. He is also a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.
In 2015, Harry stepped down as Senior Managing Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he founded and led PwC’s Emerging Markets Business Growth Strategy Management Consulting Practice. The practice’s clients included, among others, GE, Delta, Canon, Standard Chartered, Heineken, CEMEX, Australia’s Future Fund, Coca Cola, Intel, Apollo Capital, Merck, Siemens, Valmet, Pfizer, Bechtel, Sun Edison, Walmart, Abraaj Capital, Westinghouse, and IBM.
Before joining PwC, Harry was Managing Director and served on the Investment Committee at Albright Capital Management LLC, a private equity and alternative strategy investment fund focused exclusively on emerging markets. He was also a Managing Director of The Albright Group (now Albright Stonebridge).
Previously, Harry was a senior official at the World Bank, where he negotiated and executed some of the Bank’s largest business restructuring loan operations, including those in China and East Asia; Russia and the CIS; the Balkans; and sub-Saharan Africa.
Prior to the World Bank, Harry served in the Executive Office of the President as United States Assistant Trade Representative, where he oversaw all U.S. negotiations on international trade and investment in the services sectors as part of the establishment of both NAFTA and the WTO, including the negotiation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). At the same time, Harry led all U.S. negotiations of U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs); sat on the Board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC); and served on the White House Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS).
Earlier, Harry was Chief of Staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers in the White House, at the time of the first Gulf War and the U.S. Savings and Loan Crisis. He came to the White House after serving on Capitol Hill as a Senior Professional Staff Member on the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, then chaired by Senator John Glenn, where he was a key drafter of the Omnibus Trade Act.
Before serving in the White House, Harry was on the staff at the RAND Corporation; Assistant Director at Resources for the Future, Inc. (RFF); Fellow at the Brookings Institution; and on the faculties of Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University.
Harry received an A.B. in economics and history, magna cum laude, from Brown University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and an A.M. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
Harry has authored several books and numerous professional articles published in a wide array of peer-reviewed economics, foreign policy and law journals. His two most recent books are: Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier and From Disintegration to Reintegration: Russia and the ‘Former’ Soviet Union in the Global Economy.
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Harry Broadman's Personal Website is: www.harrygbroadman.com